Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Christopher Hampton. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Father
2020 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Florian Zeller
Cast Anthony Hopkins · Olivia Colman · Imogen Poots · Rufus Sewell
Plot Almost 80, mischievous, caustic, and defiantly living alone, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) rejects each and every hired caretaker that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), lovingly introduces. Anne is desperate for help....
7.7
14K votes
7.7
14K votes
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Glenn Close · John Malkovich · Michelle Pfeiffer · Keanu Reeves
Plot Based on the infamous novel LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES by Choderlos de Laclos and the subsequent Christopher Hampton play, set in pre-revolutionary France, a cunning Marquise (Glenn Close) and a seductive...
7.6
23K votes
7.6
23K votes
Atonement
2007 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joe Wright
Cast Keira Knightley · James McAvoy · Romola Garai · Saoirse Ronan
Plot On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain...
6.9
38K votes
6.9
38K votes
A Doll's House
1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Patrick Garland
Cast Claire Bloom · Anthony Hopkins · Ralph Richardson · Denholm Elliott
Plot Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's...
6.7
176 votes
6.7
176 votes
The Quiet American
2002 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Phillip Noyce
Cast Michael Caine · Brendan Fraser · Do Thi Hai Yen · Rade Serbedzija
Plot American Aid worker Alden Pyle arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. Filled with zeal for...
6.4
8K votes
6.4
8K votes
The Wolf at the Door
1986 · Movie · 90 min. · Denmark
Direction Henning Carlsen
Cast Donald Sutherland · Max von Sydow · Jean Yanne · Sofie Gråbøl
Plot This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must...
6.3
26 votes
6.3
26 votes
The Son
2022 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Florian Zeller
Cast Hugh Jackman · Zen McGrath · Vanessa Kirby · Laura Dern
Plot Peter as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Carrington
1995 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Hampton
Cast Emma Thompson · Jonathan Pryce · Steven Waddington · Rufus Sewell
Plot The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
A Dangerous Method
2011 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Cronenberg
Cast Keira Knightley · Viggo Mortensen · Michael Fassbender · Vincent Cassel
Plot Set on the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline...
6.0
24K votes
6.0
24K votes
Total Eclipse
1995 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Agnieszka Holland
Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · David Thewlis · Romane Bohringer · Christopher Hampton
Plot Director Agnieszka Holland presents this probing period piece that examines the nihilistic relationship between bad-boy French poet Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and writer Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). After Rimbaud sends...
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
The Good Father
1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mike Newell
Cast Anthony Hopkins · Jim Broadbent · Harriet Walter · Frances Viner
Plot Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by hiw wife...
5.7
57 votes
5.7
57 votes
Mary Reilly
1996 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Julia Roberts · John Malkovich · Glenn Close · Kathy Staff
5.7
6K votes
5.7
6K votes
Ali and Nino
2016 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Asif Kapadia
Cast Adam Bakri · María Valverde · Mandy Patinkin · Connie Nielsen
Plot Love story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.
5.4
285 votes
5.4
285 votes
The Thirteenth Tale (TV)
2013 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Kent
Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Olivia Colman · Sophie Turner · Alexandra Roach
Plot The story of the residents of Angelfield House and follows ageing novelist Vida Winter, who enlists a young writer to finally tell the story of her life - including her...
5.3
589 votes
5.3
589 votes
Chéri
2009 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Kathy Bates · Rupert Friend · Felicity Jones
Plot Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century is the sophisticated centre of the world. The city’s artists, its fashion, the theatre and its music – everything here is at...
5.3
2K votes
5.3
2K votes
The Secret Agent
1996 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Hampton
Cast Bob Hoskins · Patricia Arquette · Gérard Depardieu · Christian Bale
Plot London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an...
5.2
498 votes
5.2
498 votes
Beyond the Limit
1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Mackenzie
Cast Richard Gere · Michael Caine · Bob Hoskins · Elpidia Carrillo
Plot Dr. Eduardo Plarr, despite the name is an Anglo working in a Latin American country. His work is a return home after several years. He begins to form and re-establish...
5.2
562 votes
5.2
562 votes
Imagining Argentina
2003 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Hampton
Cast Antonio Banderas · Emma Thompson · Rubén Blades · Maria Canals-Barrera
Plot Carlos Rueda is the director of a children's theatre in Buenos Aires, a city haunted by the ongoing disappearance of individuals who dare to take a stand against the dictatorship...
5.0
1K votes
5.0
1K votes
Adore
2013 · Movie · 111 min. · Australia
Direction Anne Fontaine
Cast Naomi Watts · Robin Wright · Xavier Samuel · James Frecheville
Plot A gripping tale of love, lust, and the power of friendship, Two Mothers charts the unconventional and passionate affairs embarked upon by two lifelong friends, Lil and Roz, who fall...
5.0
3K votes
5.0
3K votes
The Singapore Grip (TV Series)
2020 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tom Vaughan
Cast Luke Treadaway · David Morrissey · Colm Meaney · Charles Dance
Plot 6 Episodes -60 minutes each-. The son of a British family living in South East Asia becomes involved in a love triangle.
4.9
68 votes
4.9
68 votes